I think we have a very narrow view of each other.

https://gyazo.com/ba3456728c22f592d27ee8f1a3c374f5

A thinks B is narrow-minded and B thinks A is narrow-minded

You can't usually observe what's outside your field of vision, and even if you do on some occasion, it's blurry and you can't see it well and it's underestimation.

I think I've drawn this crossed out set diagram elsewhere.

There it is.

A wraps around B.

I think there was also a Venn diagram-based representation of the inability to observe outside one's own set.

Maybe this: We cannot know the totality of what others know.

impetus

Someone A told B about C's behavior.

B described C as "narrow-minded."

But from A's perspective, C could be considered "broad-minded" because he's been all over the world.

This information was not disclosed to B.

I'm sure C would think B is "narrow-minded" too.

On the basis of your own past activities.

So both of you are just feeling that the other's vision is narrower by ignoring what's hard for you to see.

A series of pictures of two people saying different things

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